Solar tax credits may be too costly

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jun 07, 2012

~~<p>The tricky part about learning to ride a bike is knowing how and precisely when to take off those training wheels, but at some point they do have to come off.</p>
<p>Similar observations can be made about tax credits intended to nurture a budding business sector, including the solar power industry here. People can disagree about how to reshape the incentives, but nobody can rationally argue that such credits should be permanent.</p>
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The tricky part about learning to ride a bike is knowing how and precisely when to take off those training wheels, but at some point they do have to come off.

Similar observations can be made about tax credits intended to nurture a budding business sector, including the solar power industry here. People can disagree about how to reshape the incentives, but nobody can rationally argue that such credits should be permanent. Login for more...